Lobbying at Westminster is “out of control”, slams Cameron in unexpected broadside
David Cameron today (8 Feb) launched an unexpected attack on lobbyists, slamming the practice as “out of control”.
Ex-Tory candidate Boyd to return to ‘retirement’ sector as he prepares to leave Go-Ahead Group
One-time Conservative election candidate Jim Boyd is to join Partnership Assurance, which describes itself as one of the UK’s leading specialist providers of ‘financial solutions’ for people with medical conditions and the UK’s market-leading provider of long-term care annuities, as director of corp...
Former top Commission official joins agency in Brussels
BRUSSELS: Kreab Gavin Anderson has recruited a former senior European Commission official to the position of senior adviser.
Features
HOT TOPIC: Britain's lobbying in Brussels
THE QUESTION: Is Britain REALLY ‘appalling’ at engaging with EU regulations?
WILL LAMBE: Lambe gees up strategy for horseracing’s future
British horseracing hopes to banish factionalism as a new lobbying group seeks to speak with one voice. Adam Hill meets Will Lambe, the man who must make it work
The road to 'UKPAC'
The PASC inquiry into lobbying may have issued its recommendations 13 months ago, but its ramifications rumble on as the UK Public Affairs Council nears reality. Ian Hall sees Cabinet Office minister Angela E Smith MP and her Tory shadow Nick Hurd MP discuss the progress towards ‘UKPAC’ in a sparsel...
EVENT REPORT: 'The City under the Conservatives'
Ian Hall reports from an event at which the shadow minister for the City, Mark Hoban MP, explained the Conservatives’ plans for the Square Mile
ANALYSIS: The politics of the energy market, by Hanover's Jessica Lennard
Despite the ongoing snowy weather, and the recession, Britons will spend an estimated £3.2bn in the next few weeks on the nation’s favourite seasonal pastime: going shopping to hunt for bargains in the sales.
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8 Feb debate a crucial marker as UKPAC nears reality
If I were a betting man I’d wager that pretty much all Public Affairs News readers are more concerned with the general election outcome, and the robustness of their budgets, to be concerned by how their profession is regulated.